Microsoft launches a decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen
Microsoft says the model beat rival decision models on accuracy and speed in its own tests. It costs $0.042 per million input tokens, and Microsoft plans to move it onto MAI and OpenAI models.
Via TNW | Microsoft
Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a small model that picks between fixed answer options instead of writing text. Microsoft built it on Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.5-9B and then post-trained it, according to the Foundry model card.
Achint Srivastava, a vice president of software engineering in Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, announced the model in a blog post on 9 October. Microsoft will soon rebase it on other models, including OpenAI’s and its own MAI models, he wrote. The post does not say…
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